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Chandigarh, February 21: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his intervention to direct CBI to stop shielding senior Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the case of November 1984 violence against the Sikhs in Delhi.
“A perusal of the closure report dated 24th December 2014 filed by CBI and the court order dated 4th December 2015 leaves no doubt that Shri Tytler has been interfering in the investigation. In these circumstances, in any other case, the accused would have been arrested and kept in jail. I am surprised as to why the CBI has not adopted the same for Shri Jagdish Tytler”, he wrote.
He said the 1984 anti-Sikh riots were a blot in the history of India but unfortunately, under the present NDA government also, the CBI continues to shield the culprits such as Tytler who is alleged to be one of the master minds of the massacre.
He recalled that on December 24, 2014 when NDA government was in power, the CBI had given a clean chit to Tytler for the third time. However, the court rejected clean chit to Tytler on December 4, 2015 and criticized the CBI for this action. It was clear from perusal of the December 4 order as to how the CBI, which reports directly to the PM, had failed to conduct proper investigation and hurriedly filed a closure report despite the fact that earlier such closure reports had been rejected by the court.
Kejriwal stated that the court also observed that since CBI was repeatedly filing closure report, the investigation would be monitored by it. The court has now directed the SP of CBI to appear before it on February 22 next.
He called upon Modi to keep his promising of punishing the culprits of 1984 massacre.
